[FLINK-19152] Remove Kafka 0.10.x and 0.11.x connectors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka
• Labels: pull-request-available

Release Note

In Flink 1.12 we removed the Kafka 0.10.x and 0.11.x connectors. Please use the universal Kafka connector which works with any Kafka cluster version after 0.10.2.x.

Please refer to the documentation to learn about how to upgrade the Flink Kafka Connector version: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/dev/connectors/kafka.html.

• Assignee: Aljoscha Krettek
• Reporter: Aljoscha Krettek
• Created: 07/Sep/20 09:00
• Updated: 26/Nov/20 10:15
• Resolved: 15/Sep/20 15:29

Description

Please see the ML thread for details: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6d5c44e88d2d0fa187df6093694d6ad40c08561492c55b826b7231e7%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E

In short, 0.10.x and 0.11.x are very old and you can use the "modern" Kafka connector to connect to older brokers/clusters. Plus, if push comes to shove, users can use the code from 1.11 and compile it against a newer Flink release.

Issue Links

• relates to: FLINK-19247 Update Chinese documentation after removal of Kafka 0.10 and 0.11
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13360